Upper respiratory infections in a rural area with reduced malaria transmission in Senegal: a pathogens community study

Table 2 Overall distribution of sample positivity and pathogens association (N = 250)

Type of pathogenes	Number	Percentage	(95%CI)
Virus
Absence	75	30	24.4–36.1
patients with viral species	124	49.6	43.2–55.9
patients carrying 2 viral species	44	17.6	13.1–22.9
patients with 3 viral species	07	02.8	1.1–5.7
Combined (at least 1 viral pathogen)	175	70	63.9–75.6
Bacteria
Absence	43	17.2	12.7–22.5
patients with 1 bacterial species	139	55.6	49.2–61.8
Patients with 2 bacterial species	68	27.2	21.8–33.2
Combined (at least 1 bacterial pathogen)^a	207	82.8	77.5–87.3
Association of virus and bacteria
Absence	12	4.8	2.5–8.2
Patients with at least 1 virus and 1 bacterial species	238	95.2	91.8–97.5

^aComparison between proportion of patients with at least one viral pathogen versus patients with bacterial pathogen: difference = 12.8% (95%CI (5.4–20.2) p = 0.001)

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